Archive for the 'Television' Category

Broadcasting Tension

Friday, February 6th, 2009 by Jon

In a post regarding an article in The Atlantic on NFL broadcasts, Jason Kottke theorizes that the advent of instant replay beyond just a television tool, but as an official part of the game, lends itself to greater drama and tension for the viewer.  Supposedly in place to correct blatant errors from stealing a team’s victory, it has become to be used to verify all calls and take away the instant release of excitement and euphoria with a score.

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CFL Shocker!

Sunday, August 19th, 2007 by Jon

This is a quick post to address a couple CFL events the past 24 hours. A Hamilton-Saskatchewan trade needs some analysing and the CBC needs to make explanations for its lack of CFL coverage once again.
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Analyzing the CFL-TSN TV Deal

Saturday, December 23rd, 2006 by Jon

Earlier this week the Canadian Football League announced a new five-year exclusive broadcast and new media rights deal with TSN-RDS starting in the 2008 season. The announcement was not a surprise, with the deal speculated on for months prior. Some factors of the deal have lead to questions about what affects a new deal will have on the broadcast landscape and the CFL. A full analysis of what the CFL gained and gave up provides the best tool to decide if this was a good deal.
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OC Jottings

No jottings in the last 7 days. Here is a random jotting.

  • March 22, 2007
    Cambpell Says Time to Look at Eliminating Fighting → Not only are players bigger, stronger, etc. but they have been trained for one purpose. The Tiger Williams’, and even Bob Probert’s were trained as hockey players first, fighters second. Now players come in knowing exactly where they have to land a punch to knock a player out so the coach can send them out to fire up the team when needed. When they moved it away from line brawls, Vaseline in the hair and Slapshot stuff, they made it a specialized bare-knuckled fight in the middle of a hockey game. #
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